“The whale seems to have died in deep sea several days back and washed ashore at the Managala river mouth. We will bury the body of the whale after conducting a post-mortem to ascertain its cause of death,” he said.

Recently three dead whales were found near the coast in Odisha’s Ganjam and Kendrapara and Puri.

While a carcass of whale was sighted from the coast in Brahmagiri area of Puri on February 9, a carcass of a whale measuring 33 feet long was found at Podampetta coast in Ganjam district on February 3 and another whale measuring 66 feet in length was found at Chinchiri mouth at Rajnagar in Kendrapara district on February 5.